The 2018 Google I/O conference keynote opened with this immense yet lovable animated film that Nexus director Fx Goby describes as “a story about the power of a community working together to make good things.”
Client: Google
Creatives: Jack Colley, Thomas Manion
Creative Producer: Casey Lee
Producer: Karen Morris
Production: Nexus Studios
Director: Fx Goby
Producer: Mariano Melman-Carrara, Kirsty Ratcliffe
Production Manager: Derek Walsh
Production Assistant: Lucy Caetano
Art Director: Melanie Climent
Designer: Jack Cunningham, James Castillo Murphy
Project Lead: Nico Domerego, Dorianne Fibleuil
Lead Animator: Lucas Vigroux
Lead Lighting: Darren Rolmanis
Lead VFX: Hugh Johnson
Lead Compositor: Ken Hau
Storyboard: Louis Kynd, Will Volley
3D Animation: Lucas Vigroux, Aziz Kocanaogullari, Fabrice Fiteni, Clement Fassler, Edwin Leeds, Remy Herisse, Simone Giampaolo, Ning-En Chang
2D Animation: Samantha Jones, Dani Bethel
Rigging: Kasper Larsson, Arthur Ranson
Modelling: Dorianne Fibleuil, Corentin Charron, Cesar Eiji-Nunes, Sébastien De Oliveira Bispo, Adam Lindsey, Arnold Pryada, Jerome Ferra, Eder De Souza
Texturing: Sophie Blayrat, Sébastien De Oliveira Bispo, Dorianne Fibleuil
VFX: Hugh Johnson, Paul Cousins, Gareth Bell, Guillaume Fradin
Lighting: Dorianne Fibleuil, Corentin Charron, Darren Rolmanis, Benoit Berthe, Adam Lindsey, Florian Caspar, Sébastien De Oliveira Bispo, Jerome Ferra, Cesar Eiji-Nunes, Paco Rocha, Arnold Pryada, Nicolas Morel.
Compositing: Valentin Panisset, Sarah Breakwell, Valerie Guichard, Clarisse Valeix, Lisa Mandelli, Jean-Baptiste Aziere, Bence Varga, Debora Sangermano, Gockcecan Gursoy
Art Department: James Castillo Murphy, Samuel Klughertz, Morgan Le Henry, Maxime Dupuy, Slawek Fedorczuk
Countdown Intro:
Director: Nicolas Ménard
Animators: James Turzynski, Pablo Lozano, Dani Bethel, Amanda Holm
Compositor: Daniel Romero
Music: Brains&Hunch
Editors: Dave Slade, James Alexander, Pablo Noe, Mark Van Heusden
Pipeline,Technical Director: Tom Melson, Patrick Hearn
IT Support/Systems: Ryan Cawthorne
Studio Manager: Natalie Busuttil
Assistant Studio Manager: Samira Tristani-Firouzi
Audio Post: Fonic
Dubbing Mixer and Sound Designer: JM Finch
Assistant Sound Editor: Rory Hunter
Foley recordist: Christopher Swaine
Foley Artist: Ruth Sullivan
Music: Vulfpeck ‘Animal Spirits’
